Assessment of UVB solar radiation in four different selected climate locations in Saudi Arabia

Abstract

ABSTRACT In this paper, we used the data measurements of average hourly and monthly of UV solar radiation from 2003 to 2017 at four different selected locations in Saudi Arabia for optimisation and evaluation of UVB, UVBest., UVI and KtUVB solar radiation and total ozone column TOC (DU). The scattering phenomena on by stratospheric ozone is high extremely attenuation of UVB solar radiation. The predicted values of UVB solar radiation are a good agreement with the measurement of the UVB solar radiation. The accuracy between measured and predicted values of UVB solar radiation in selected locations in the present research varies from 1.27 to 3.87%. The maximum values of the total ozone column TOC are occur between March and April months at all selected locations with exception Taif site which occur between April and may months, and in whole the highest values of TOC occur about Spring time in all study locations.The relation between UVI and (SZA) at all selected locations in the present research is discussed. The monthly average has a correlation coefficient equal to 72%, 82%, 85% and 83% at Al-Baha, Abha, Jeddah and Taif sites, respectively, so the SZA is responsible for variations of UVI by 72%, 82%, 85% and 83% at Al-Baha, Abha, Jeddah and Taif locations for the monthly values respectively.